It's a real pleasure to welcome highly respected and experienced musical selector, DJ, radio host and curator Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy (@colleen-cosmo-murphy) with a special 'audio yoga mix' to our series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

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MFM: Hi Colleen, thanks for sharing your thoughts and music with us. Hosting your weekly online radio shows, making plenty mixes for several outlets, DJing clubs and festivals... How do you keep motivated and inspired?

CM: Sharing music has been focal to my life since I was a teenager hosting shows on our 10-watt high school radio station and working in a record shop after school. Turning people onto new tunes and artists gives me immense joy and courses throughout every aspect of my vocation. I’m a communicator at heart. That’s balanced with the more internalized creativity of music productions and remixes. Being in the studio and playing with ideas and sounds is very focusing and the rest of the world seems to fall away. It’s therapeutic. And playing records as a DJ or musical host is like a lively musical conversation in which I draw energy from the dancers and give it back in turn. A great party is a collective creation. Throughout all of my endeavours I try to impart the life energy of music, a healing and motivational force that inspires me every day.

MFM: In a time and place where the context of a DJ seems to have changed over decades, do you feel your “classic” approach of DJing gives you an advantage in keeping relevant and reaching a crowd?

CM: It's important to have your own point of difference. I have never been a ‘cookie-cutter’ type DJ and used to struggle with the idea that I didn’t fit in. But then I recognized that all the different aspects of my vocation had one thing in common – myself. Once I integrated everything and became more holistic in my approach, I felt happier and more confident. Being authentic to oneself is first and foremost and then it is up to others to decide whether or not they like your creative output. You can’t please everybody, but you have to try to please yourself otherwise there is no point. I get immense pleasure in what I do and hope that it brings joy to others. I do have a classic approach to DJ-ing but I’m also always looking for new sounds that resonate. I also admire other DJs styles even if it’s quite different to my own. There’s room for everyone.

MFM: You're a DJ who encourages the listener to open up and really listen to music, its definitions, context and aesthetics. Probably one of the foremost reasons why you tend to let a song run from beginning till end. With such strong values, what's your view on the modern way of “consuming” music?

CM: There are many different ways to enjoy music and none are the wrong way. Any experience of music is good. When I started Classic Album Sundays in 2010, it was a response to music only being ‘consumed’ rather than experienced and I wanted to share the way the I often listen to music with others to provide an alternative. At that time, we were in the midst of shuffle culture and the almighty MP3 and whilst both have their place, it shouldn’t be the end-all experience. When people come to a Classic Album Sundays event and hear the subtleties and nuances of an entire album played without interruption, on one of the world’s best sound systems and in a communal setting, they experience music in a different way and most find it transformative. But listening to music in a car or dancing to a DJ who scratches and cuts up songs can also be inspirational. I can only try to offer what is authentic from me.

MFM Mix 045: Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

Springtime is lurking, treacherously - Telephones helps you slide through the murky Berlin lurk with silky and sunny Street Soul, Disco, Balearic, and House-vibes for better, brighter days to finally up those celsius!

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Feat. great bands: Pavement, Bugsküll, Built to Spill, Guv'ner, Sebadoh, Sammy, Guided by Voices, Dinosaur Jr, Polvo, Silver Jews... 

US/Canada 90's Indie Rock & Lo-Fi are genres I cherish, although few people know about it.

Most people never heard these songs, this was 90s indie music that not many listened to back then, even more so outside of the English western music world (USA, UK, Australia...). 

This Indie scene wasn't that much connected to grunge (different scenes, cities and mindset), Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and so on, had exploded into the early 90s alternative rock tidal wave that shook & drastically changed the mainstream music landscape to the ground - ending the 80s/90s dominance of the hair-sprayed Metal bands era like Poison, Europe, Bon Jovi... - in the wake of Nirvana's "Nevermind" deflagration. It was a massive cultural shift driven by a new generation. I remember watching MTV before Nirvana as a young teenager, and hating most "rock" music that was on there...

Although metal bands like Guns N' Roses had emerged with a more gritty sound and were huge for a long time, as time went by in the 90s they lost more & more relevance and couldn't stop the massive impact of the grunge/alternative rock cultural revolution and its long-lasting influence, even after the death of Kurt Cobain and the disbandment of other bands of the era. 

Although older and from another generation, and having started around 1980, there was a link/kinship between Sonic Youth and some of the 90s indie bands included in this mix such as Pavement, with whom they shared stages and backstages on several occasions, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, or Eric's Trip (a song by Sonic Youth and the name of one of the members of the band). Although Canadians, Eric's trip landed a contract and put out several albums on Sub Pop, Seattle Nirvana's early label. Sonic Youth outlived almost every other band until the separation and subsequent divorce of founding members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore in 2011.

In my school in Geneva, only one guy was into indie rock, lo-fi... and none of my friends liked this. I was always going on my own to the few shows that made it to town or Switzerland. Saw Cat Power playing solo at La Dolce Vita in Lausanne, Guv'ner in a Geneva squat, Sebadoh at Fri-Son... Barely 18, I hitch-hiked my way across the whole country to the Rote Fabrik in Zurich in 1995 with an older Portuguese guy I had met at a few concerts, to see the Big Cat Tour feat. Pavement (with two drummers)! www.last.fm/de/festival/268613+Big+Cat 

Was a great music night at Zurich's legendary flagship alternative venue/areal Rote Fabrik. I will always fondly remember Pavement, Mercury Rev and Dirty Three especially, as well as Blumfeld, a great German band. We ended up sleeping on a bare mattress in the attic of a squat near the Zurich train station, then somehow hitch-hiked our way back to Geneva, dirty from the whole trip, between a ride in a truck that left us half way at a gas station kinda in the middle of nowhere, before being super lucky not too long after, when a nice Mercedes with a Geneva license plate pulled over to fuel, and the guy incredibly agreed to take us back for a two hours ride into his beautiful car straight to Geneva! 

Anyway, that's for the memories. Curious to see if this music will resonate and reach a new audience now! It's the 90s revival after all! ;) 

Enjoy, like, share & leave some comments! ❤️‍🔥

Cobeia - 90's US Indie Rock/Lo-Fi Mix

I have been recording mixes for 29 years & this might be one my favourite sets ever. 

It seems I've grown to love long emotive arches – within songs as well as in programming. And Songs Not Tracks lets me do just that.

I get to showcase a variety of beautiful dance music I've been obsessed with. I can let it unfold over multiple hours, as an open-to-close club set would: with "the patience of an opening set, the drama of peak time, and the tender emotionality of closing a night" (quote from DJ Voices, one of the best writers in the dj realm).

Selections cover 5 decades and include many of my fave new releases of 2024. Once again house is front & center, but as always, surrounded by adjacent vibes (ok ok, you don't really get a real house song until 45 minutes in or so 😎) 

We begin slow, but start building soon enough. Eventually we get to peak time drama... and close with tender emotionality.

Open your mind, tune in, enjoy! 🧡

Thx for help and/or inspiration: Victoria, DURH crew, Perennial Rhythms, Ita, TINPE, Woody, DJ Voices, Eli, musclecars.

----Sampo / Ocean People

TRACKLISTING:

Space Craft's Men - Crossing 
Simply Red - Thrill Me - Steppin' Razor Ambient Instrumental Mix 
Theophilus London feat. Leon Ware - Water Me
Loose Ends - Nights Of Pleasure (The Dancing Danny Dee Dub)
Sjunne Ferger - Reality 
Jazzadelic - Time
Angelique Kidjo - Batonga - The Jungle Club Mix
YBU - Soul Magic - Deep Vocal Version 
Schatrax - ? (I misplaced the record & they all look alike)
Antonio Ocasio - Below The Underground
Circulation - The Return 
Mark E - Sanctified 
DJ Different - A Woman’s Aura
The Rock Posse Featuring Fonda Rae - Do You Want My Love? - Smooth R&B Mix 
Deep Choice - Fix Of 4:38AM 
Push / Pull - Secrets Of The Nile
ARN4L2 - Caribe
Munir - Pit Stop 
Mike Perras - Beginning Of Life
Sade: Pearls - Phillip Damien Remix 
Jorge C: A Little Beat A Little Beat - DJ Sprinkles The World Is Ova Megamix
Kelela - Contact - Karen Nyame KG Remix 
Trinidadian Deep - Native Revolution 
Jeremias Santiago - Congasoul 
Raw Elements - Last Foundation
A Man Called Adam: Que Tal America - Ocean People Edit 
Pascal’s Bongo Massive I - Pere Cochon (I Like It) - The Shirley Bassey Suite
Janet Jackson - Any Time, Any Place - D&D House Mix 
Musclecars - There’s Space For Us All 
DJ’s Rule - In Deep 
Prolific feat. Simone - Stay With Me Forever - Grand Piano Paradise Mix 
Inner City - Share My Life - Kenny Larkin Detroit Mix
Joe - Claptrap 
Erykah Badu - Didn’t Cha Know - L3Ni Love Remix
Josh One - Contemplation - King Britt Funke Mix 
Los Hermanos Detroit -  Family 
John Beltran - Gutaris Breeze (6000 km To Amsterdam)
Ten City - All Loved Out - Extended Vocal Version

Songs Not Tracks #4 /// 4-hour dance music excursion 🧡

Tropical rhythms, devotional boogie and soulful shenanigans with a heavy jazz undertone, Patrick Forge gathers it all up for your listening pleasure.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/patrickforge/episodes/patrickforge-24th-february-2025

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Mix of the Week #205 is "Flamingo Globe" by JAZ

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